1079 ordspråk av Benjamin Franklin

US  Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin föddes den January 17th 1706 och dog den 17 April 1790 - writer and inventor.
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 Well done, is twice done.

 Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first

 What has become clear to you since we last met ?

 What have you wrought ... A Republic if you can keep it.

 What is the use of a new-born child?

 What maintains one vice, would bring up two children

 What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people, is that they don't want to discourage it completely.

 What one relishes, nourishes

 What pains our Justice takes his faults to hide, With half that pains sure he might cure 'em quite

 What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things.

 What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

 What you would seem to be, be really.

 What's a Sun-Dial in the Shade?

 What's given shines, What's receiv'd is rusty

 What's proper, is becoming: See the Blacksmith with his white Silk Apron!


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